RSNA 2007
November 25-30
in Chicago, IL.

A Look at Some of the New Vendor Products at 2007 RSNA

November 05, 2007
by Joan Trombetti, Writer
Six suites of Impax portfolio that are targeted at specific healthcare segments will be highlighted by Agfa HealthCare at RSNA 2007, to be held November 25-30 at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. The Impax Enterprise Suite, designed for large-scale healthcare institutions will provide customers with help in workload balancing across locations and data consolidation with Impax Data Center. Impax Hospital Suite is aimed at small to mid-size hospitals that need integration of multiple specialties, featuring clinical functionality, workflow adaptability and scalability. Impax Imaging Center Suite is geared to compact imaging centers and decentralized radiology practices, and Impax Cardiovascular (CV) Suite will handle cardiovascular image management and reporting requirements. Impax Orthopedic Suite will meet the needs of orthopedic requirements in a digital environment, while Impax Mammography Suite will focus on handling the imaging, workflow and report needs of diagnostic and screening mammography departments. (Agfa Booth 4106)

Amica's Booth 2583 will house its version 5.5 Vision Series PACS network and premier its version 2.0 Vision Reach module. These two releases will feature enhancements to Amica's RealTime Worklist role-based workflow management tool.

Carestream Health, Booth 2513, will introduce its latest version of Carestream PACS, which is designed for both single and multisites and employs dynamic streaming capabilities to speed image delivery to on-site and remote clinicians. The company will also show off the next generation of its Digital Dashboard application that allows administrators to monitor equipment performance, storage utilization and user volumes for Carestream PACS.

Fujifilm Medical Systems USA will showcase the latest version of its Synapse PACS software in Booth 1129 at this year's RSNA. Synapse Version 3.2.1 puts forward digital mammography enhancements, adding tools to the display and management of computer aided detection (CAD) results, Mammorgraphy Quality Standards Act (MQSA) compliant image overlays and diagnostic/screening reading protocols. Fuji will also feature integration with ProSolv's cardiovascular image and information system for any cardiac modality. Fuji will also zone in on integrated Corridor4DM capabilities that offer review, analysis and quantification tools for nuclear cardiology physicians and technologists from any ProSolv-Cardio Vascular workstation.

Booth 1729: GE will feature its recent acquisition of PACS-vendor Dynamic Imaging and 3.0 of Centricity Imaging PACS will be a highlighted product. GE will also feature the latest releases including new decision-support tools like the GE Business Intelligence Portal to help administrators maximize resources, enhanced security features, voice-driven commands and configurable worklists, as well as the Centricity-Advanced Workstation (AW) Suite-2, which blends advanced visualization tools from GE's AW software with Centricity Imaging PACS.

Philips Medical Systems will demonstrate versions 3.6 and 4.1 of iSite PACS line of PACS software in Booth 4129. iSite showcases integrated advanced visualization functionality for volumetric image visualization, manipulation and interpretation.

Look for Siemens in Booth 7713, where the syngo platform, and an advanced range of visualization software will be featured. Focus will be placed on the benefits of Siemens' syngo software platform including service-oriented architecture (SOA). Siemens will also introduce its version 6 of syngo Dynamics cardiology image and information management system, as well as discuss developments with its computer-aided detection (CAD) technology. Syngo PE Detection - a work-in- progress tool designed to serve as a second reader for detecting segmental and subsegmental filling defects in CT angiography studies of the thorax will also be introduced. There will be a demonstration of the next version of Siemens' syngo Colonography PEV-software, and the work-in-progress syngo MammoCAD application will be featured.